Otherwise, the rights to claim the benefit of provisional application are lost.

However, the original priority date of any expired provisional applications will be forfeited.

This makes it very important that provisional applications be sufficiently detailed.

Any such statement filed in a provisional application will be returned or destroyed at the option of the Office.

No enforceable rights can be obtained solely through the filing of a provisional application.

However, provisional applications are not now renewable under any circumstances.

There is even an obligation to commence negotiations within 60 days of provisional application.

A month later the Council then decided on the provisional application of the agreement.

So the Commission has once again regarded the Council's decision on the provisional application of the agreement as an adequate legal base.

This means that we face another instance of provisional application because, as usual, the Council has not bothered to consult us.